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Find minimum-area ellipse which encloses two ellipses
I need an efficient algorithm to find the ellipse with the smallest possible area which encloses two given ellipses. The given ellipses are constrained to have coincident centers at the origin but can ...
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Find minimum-area ellipse enclosing a set of ellipses, all centered at the origin
Given a set of N > 2 (two-dimensional and coplanar) ellipses, all centered at the origin, how do I find the ellipse with the minimum area which encloses all of them?
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Thanks to Will Jagy ...